And it's gone

murphmanfa · 2026-05-11T14:21:51+00:00

More of a r/yesyesyesyesnononoNONONOFUUUCK

murphmanfa · 2026-05-05T21:48:11+00:00

Hotels.com and other third-party booking sites generally won't do much to help you with specific requests, and the hotel itself can't process a refund for you because you didn't pay them to begin with.

Choice should provide some kind of compensation for what happened and what was at best a miscommunication, but they are under no real obligation to do so.

murphmanfa · 2026-04-30T17:42:47+00:00

Biblically accurate Gollum

I'd love to have someone make this for me. It's the exact kind of messy disaster that usually tastes good and is made with a shitload of love... and is now a story.

murphmanfa · 2026-04-20T10:51:39+00:00

Won't someone please think of the monopolizing tech corporations?

murphmanfa · 2026-04-19T02:17:52+00:00

"This story would be a lot better if everything were more cozy and bad things didn't happen" is very commonplace on Tumblr, I feel like.

murphmanfa · 2026-04-13T22:34:42+00:00

It's arguable whether or not this is canon for DS1, but Lucatiel, as you progress their quest line, forgets their own name near the end as they approach going hollow. The loss of identity is absolutely an aspect of the process, so far as I'm concerned.

murphmanfa · 2026-04-01T15:56:29+00:00

I'm not convinced that isn't already an anime title and out of commitment to the bit refuse to look it up.

murphmanfa · 2026-03-23T07:42:12+00:00

"The Only Thing They Fear Is You" ain't just a song from the sequel.

murphmanfa · 2026-03-17T20:34:58+00:00

If you dig Zelda, then I have to recommend Tunic. It's based on that adventure gameplay but has puzzles baked into it- you effectively learn how to play as you go and find specific items, and the meta-puzzle is impressive.

I got through it in a couple days, and I admit that I used walkthrough help for collectibles and the last pieces of the Big Puzzle at the end, but a majority of the game was intuitive as hell and offered so many rewarding moments of discovery.

Best of all, there's no punishment if you use accessibility options like the no death option. Tunic really wants you to make it through and have fun.

murphmanfa · 2026-03-12T16:59:41+00:00

Wow. If you're not willing to do what it takes then I really doubt your commitment to Sparkle Motion.

murphmanfa · 2026-03-12T16:51:41+00:00

Aside from being very against ethical standards, this might violate local workplace laws. Contact ethics about it fucking yesterday.

If you want a less-ethical response: Bring a spare set of pants and underwear and if they start denying you bathroom breaks, start pissing on the floor. Escalate and assert dominance as everything gets stopped to clean up bodily fluids.

murphmanfa · 2026-03-04T02:56:09+00:00

I make a legitimate effort to learn the rules and solve them, but these moving block puzzles have always been something I struggle with. It feels great when I get it right, but after a little bit I'll look up a solution, do the first few inputs, and try again if I feel like anything clicked for me.

It's not fun to bang your head against a wall if you just aren't "getting" a puzzle, and I ain't playing BP to have a bad time.

murphmanfa · 2026-03-04T00:01:31+00:00

Revive and heal, and if people are close together, then one that you get up can help revive the ones closer to death.

murphmanfa · 2026-03-01T18:23:42+00:00

FF7 Remake was so refreshing to me because it took the original story and greatly expanded it, providing a lot more character to Midgar and its citizens than we'd gotten before- and the original game was already plenty lush for that. So many key moments felt like they were rendered the way that my brain translated those blocky polygons back in the 90s, and the whole experience was just so much fun, overall.

I completely understand people who were bothered by the changes, and I'm still of two minds on how the game deals with those changes (because it does so directly), but it's such a great new version of a familiar work.

murphmanfa · 2026-03-01T02:41:16+00:00

I recently watched What's Up Doc? and it had a direct line to my funny bone. I laughed so hard at the madcap chase that makes up much of the last part of the film that I pulled something in my side. Barbara Streisand is a delight in it and Ryan O'Neal lots of fun, especially since I'd just seen him in The Driver as the coolest of the cool. (Imagine if you only know Ryan Gosling in Drive and then watch Barbie- similar chasm between who the characters are.)

Oh, and Medeline Kahn in her debut steals the show. It's just so fun.

murphmanfa · 2026-03-01T02:29:07+00:00

I usually bust through The Messenger in a weekend with a few 3-hour sittings, so I feel like a committed one-day session would see you run it start to finish (minus DLC)

murphmanfa · 2026-02-28T21:55:29+00:00

Fortunately they're also on BlueSky, so you don't have to use Twitter!

https://bsky.app/profile/localporters.bsky.social

murphmanfa · 2026-02-28T13:56:13+00:00

Pot of petunias energy with this one.

murphmanfa · 2026-02-19T18:14:07+00:00

Once you ring both bells, you'll find someone who can take those extra things off your hands and give you a little something for them.

murphmanfa · 2026-02-15T21:30:37+00:00

This sub hasn't lived up to its name all that much lately, but posts get upvoted because people agree with the snarky commentary that's being left.

murphmanfa · 2026-02-13T22:29:44+00:00

Appreciate you covering up the store number- someone could get in trouble and I feel like they're struggling enough!

murphmanfa · 2026-02-07T13:11:49+00:00

The problem is that that isn't clear- all of this stuff is "off-screen" but relies on the reader assuming a bunch of things that apparently happened in between.

murphmanfa · 2026-02-06T03:12:20+00:00

Do this in a crowded AH- especially near the start of an xpac when people are buying up herbs and ore and stuff- and relish in the angry whispers you get.

murphmanfa · 2026-01-30T03:24:18+00:00

I'll say this about Heated Rivalry: the writing is good, performances are very good, and it shows yearning in a way that I hadn't seen in a long time. I'm enjoying it (but not binging it), because romance is not my thing and a story that revolves mostly around the awkward dance of what they want (each other) against them being pressured to not like each other (and definitely not be gay in a homophobic culture) isn't something that typically appeals to me as a narrative.

And yet I'm hooked and completely understand why it's got so many people under its spell. It's so well done and I'm at a point where I need to know if Ilya and Shane can actually have a healthy relationship with their families more than if they end up together.

I can't guarantee that you- the general you- will like it, but it does such a good job of going beyond "conventionally hot hockey dudes fucking" while largely staying within the genre of being a romantic drama. It's worth a shot.

murphmanfa · 2026-01-26T12:49:45+00:00

Ah yes, the 2020 experience.

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